War Admiral

Racing's 4th triple crown winner

From ESPN's Jewels of the Triple Crown
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Sports

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• war
• admiral
• racings
• fourth
• triple
• crown
• winner

[HarbingerOfBattle]

Why did they put War Admiral on the inside post in the dirby if his reputation was so high? One would think he would be closer to the outside

[carlykaiser]

Maybe they had no choice?

[parabuteo78]

Great video for a great horse.

And his loss to Seabiscuit only meant that Seabiscuit was the better horse that day.

Which is also why I don't like the idea of Match Races. They only prove, if ever, which horse is the better in that particular moment. And the risk of ruining a horse, because Match races are usually flat out sprints all the way, is just not worth it.

They were both great horses, let's just keep it that.

[Rockandrollalchemist]

@HarbingerOfBattle Post positions aren't decided by how good or bad a horse is. They are randomly drawn.

[meshell86]

and the better horses get to wear added weight....sometimes horrible amounts...as they did to seabisuit...par lap, etc....they sincerely tried to kill these horses back then...

[Rockandrollalchemist]

@katklub ...yeah, they assign weight based on previous performances, but not post positions, which is what we we were talking about. Post positions are randomly drawn.

[katklub]

@Rockandrollalchemist Yeah they handicap horses based on reputation. The handicap is how much weight they must carry

[theshouldersman]

@raynewolfe43 it means these 2 horses were gonna push each other to the final length who ever won deserved it

[waradmiral1937]

war admiral still >seabiscuit

[raynewolfe43]

I am not fluent in race track lingo...Could someone please tell me what the announcer meant when he said there were a couple of speed horses and that kept the track honest? TY

[711ATOM]

In response to the question as to what color War Admiral was, I do not know if the it is still the practice but in War Admiral's time a horse's registered color was largely determined by the color of the nose/muzzle at the time of filing. War Admiral was listed as a bay, but he become much darker as he grew. All contemporary accounts I have seen say the horse was essentially black, though perhaps not a true, deep black, which is a rare color in thoroughbreds (as is true white).

[SECby31]

@rannyray Yes, and that's why War Admiral is ranked a lot higher than Biscuit in the Blood Horse rankings (not just a few places higher) - because he was the better horse.

[midniteangel2610]

in most races the horses starting positions are randomly assigned